Editor's Note

  1. Science & Society

    Sometimes failure is the springboard to success

    Editor in chief Eva Emerson discusses scientific discoveries that resulted from failures large and small.

    By Eva Emerson
  2. Science & Society

    Science relies on work of young research standouts

    Editor in chief Eva Emerson discusses 10 up-and-coming researchers who will be answering science's biggest questions in the decades to come.

    By Eva Emerson
  3. Astronomy

    Proxima b deserves buzz, even if some didn’t notice

    Editor in chief Eva Emerson discusses Earth's newest potentially habitable neighbor.

    By Eva Emerson
  4. Microbes

    Bacteria display qualities that a mother would love

    Editor in chief Eva Emerson discusses big lessons we can learn from some of Earth's smallest organisms.